[GRASS5] Is there a raster to vector converter for text like there is for lines?

[Hamish]

> Where would I find free OCR software?

$ apt-cache search ocr

clara - Free OCR program for Unix Systems
gocr - A command line OCR
gocr-doc - gocr documentation
gocr-gtk - A GTK wrapper around gocr
gocr-tk - A tcl/tk wrapper around gocr
gstreamer-misc - Collection of various GStreamer plugins
gstreamer0.8-misc - Collection of various GStreamer plugins
kaudiocreator - CD ripper and audio encoder frontend
ksocrat - English/Russian and Russian/English Dictionary
ksocrat-data - English and Russian KSocrat data files
libgocr-dev - API set to write your own OCR engine - development files
libgocr-doc - API set to write your own OCR engine - documentation
libgocr0 - API set to write your own OCR engine - runtime libs
nec - NEC2 Antenna Modelling System
quiteinsane - A Qt based X11 frontend for SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy)
ksubtitleripper - GUI for KDE to rip DVD subtitles


that should be enough to feed into google.


Hamish